The crystal mouse

The story takes place in Cape Haze, Florida, a small coastal resort town. It is a tale of growing terror amid the luxurious surroundings of an elegant retirement colony. It is the story of Sara Hillstrom, whose husband's unexpected death suddenly leaves her alone as the only resident in the newly completed high rise condo to which the couple had planned to move. Covering a period of just three days, days which become increasingly tense as Sara hears voices and footsteps in the supposedly empty apartment next door, the book traces her rising panic as she begins to lose the composure and facade she has so carefully built up over the years. While long forgotten events flood Sara's mind everyone she encounters becomes suspect to her. And when she finds the crystal mouse, the prize piece in her crystal collection, with its head nearly severed from its body, she sees her very life at stake to the working out of events that take her on her final, terrible journey into fear. I felt like I held my breath the whole time I was reading it but I guess not since I'm still alive to do the review. The Walls Came Tumbling Down was also a great book by this author.